First Paragraph of the article:A biotech company that set off a wild race when it announced it would beat a publicly funded effort to crack the human genetic code made an audacious business proposal in recent closed-door meetings: In return for sharing its findings, the firm wanted exclusive rights to the code for up to five years.

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